decisions in order to understand their behavior. This study focuses on the information from media channels that is influencing … beliefs, or salience and perceptions of various media outlets, of a person. This information can be used to better understand … the motivation to partake in risk behavior. The method used was a survey. Study participants were asked about which media …

Mass media consumption has increasingly been found to adversely impact upon psychological states but research has … largely neglected the potential influence of media onaspirations. An experiment demonstrates aspirational incomes to be … peer comparison effects, a common element of a variety of media formats. The effect of the narrative rapidly dissipates …

The dissertation tracks the media development and diversity policy positions of the SouthAfrican government with a … commercial media sector and the Departmentof Finance (now National Treasury) impacted on the policy process to drive … governmentthinking in a more market-driven direction. It explores the implications of this marketthinking for the deepening of media …

-making. Several issues are addressed: 1) developing tools to engage in systematic producer-centered qualitative media research across … cultures , 2) testing a comprehensive grounded category scheme to characterize media producers' strategic presentational values …, 3) broadening discussion of the influence of culture on media decision-making by moving beyond national culture and …